Books Discussed at Skokie Public Library
... beginning in October 1966
It would be difficult to find a subject, a writing style, or a genre not covered in this wide-ranging list of books which have been discussed over the years by Skokie Public Library's book discussion group.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| A | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Abbott, Edwin | Flatland | 1981 |
| Abraham, Pearl | The Romance Reader | 2000 |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | 1993 |
| Ackerman, Diane | The Natural History of Senses | 1994 |
| Ackerman, Diane | The Zookeeper's Wife | 2009 |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down | 1976 |
| Adams, Richard | Adventures of a Curious Nature | 1990 |
| Agee, James | A Death in the Family | 1966 |
| Albee, Edward | A Delicate Balance | 1974 |
| Albee, Edward | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | 1967 |
| Ali, Monica | Brick Lane | 2006 |
| Allende, Isabel | Eva Luna | 1997 |
| Allison, Dorothy | Bastard Out of Carolina | 1996 |
| Alvarez, Julia | In the Time of the Butterflies | 2005 |
| Amado, Jorge | Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands | 1982 |
| Amis, Kingsley | Lucky Jim | 1973 |
| Anderson, Sherwood | Winesburg, Ohio | 1997 |
| Anderson-Dargatz, Gail | A Recipe for Bees | 2003 |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 1972 |
| Anshaw, Carol | Aquamarine | 1994 |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Blind Assassin | 2004 |
| Atwood, Margaret | Cat's Eye | 1998 |
| Atwood, Margaret | Handmaid's Tale | 1987 |
| Atwood, Margaret | Surfacing | 1976 |
| Auel, Jean | Clan of the Cave Bear | 1983 |
| Austen, Jane | Emma | 1986 |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion | 2004 |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | 1974 & 1996 |
| Axline, Virginia | Dibs In Search of Self | 1973 |
| B | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain | 1968 |
| Balzac, Honore de | Cousin Bette | 1976 |
| Barnes, John | Evita | 1981 |
| Barth, John | Floating Opera | 1974 |
| Baxter, Charles | The Feast of Love | 2002 |
| Beagle, Peter | The Last Unicorn | 1973 |
| Beattie, Ann | Picturing Will | 1991 |
| Beavuvoir, Simone di | Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | 1987 |
| Begley, Louis | Wartime Lies | 1992 |
| Belfer, Lauren | City of Light | 2003 |
| Bellow, Saul | Adventures of Augie March | 1996 |
| Bellow, Saul | Dangling Man | 1969 |
| Bellow, Saul | Him With His Foot In His Mouth | 1986 |
| Bellow, Saul | Humboldt's Gift | 1977 |
| Bellow, Saul | Theft | 1989 |
| Berendt, John | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | 1999 |
| Berg, Andrew | Max Perkins, Editor of Genius | 1980 |
| Berger, Thomas | Little Big Man | 1972 |
| Berryman, John | Dream Songs | 1977 |
| Bettelheim, Rruno | The Informed Heart | 1973 |
| Bettelheim, Rruno | Uses of Enchantment | 1977 |
| Blixen, Karen | Out of Africa | 1977 |
| Bloom, Al-Ian | Closing of the American Mind | 1988 |
| Boll, Heinrich | Lost Honor of Katherine Blum | 1987 |
| Bolt, Robert | A Man for All Seasons | 1968 |
| Boswell, James | Life of Johnson | 1986 |
| Bowen, Elizabeth | Death of the Heart | 1971 |
| Brecht, Bertold | Caucasian Chalk Circle | 1998 |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | 1988 |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights | 1980 |
| Brookner, Anita | Hotel duLac | 1986 & 1998 |
| Brookner, Anita | Rules of Engagement | 2010 |
| Brooks, Geraldine | March | 2007 |
| Brooks, Geraldine | People of the Book | 2009 |
| Brooks, Geraldine | Year of Wonders | 2004 |
| Bulgakov, Mikhail | Master and Marguerita | 1992 |
| Burns, Olive Ann | Cold Sassy Tree | 1991 |
| Butler, Robert Olen | Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | 1994 |
| Byatt, A.S. | The Matisse Stories | 2002 |
| C | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Camus, Albert | The Plague | 1970 & 2010 |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger | 1967 |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland | 1982 |
| Carver, Raymond | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | 1999 |
| Cary, Joyce | The Horse's Mouth | 1975 |
| Castaneda, Carlos | Tales of Power | 1976 |
| Cather, Willa | Sapphira and the Slave Girl | 1982 |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia | 1998 |
| Chapman, Fern Scchumer | Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust | 2003 |
| Cheever, John | The Stories of John Cheever | 1980 |
| Chekhov, Anton | The Seagull | 1980 |
| Chekhov, Anton | Ward Number Six and Other Stories | 2003 |
| Chevalier, Tracy | The Girl with a Pearl Earring | 2001 |
| Cheng, Nien | Life and Death in Shanghai | 1991 |
| Chernin, Kim | In My Mother's House | 1990 |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening | 1976 |
| Clark, Arthur C. | 2010 | 1985 |
| Cleaver, Eldridge | Soul on Ice | 1969 |
| Cliff, Michelle | No Telephone to Heaven | 2002 |
| Colette | Cheri and Last of Cheri | 1976 & 2004 |
| Collins, Wilkie | Moonstone | 1987 |
| Colter, Cyrus | Chocolate Soldier | 1993 |
| Connell, Evan | Mr Bridge | 1991 |
| Connell, Evan | Mrs Bridge | 1991 |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | 1968 & 1999 |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim | 1986 |
| Cormier, Robert | Chocolate War | 1978 |
| Cowan, Paul | Orphan in History | 1984 |
| Crichton, Michael | Rising Sun | 1993 |
| Crisp, Quentin | Naked Civil Servant | 1979 |
| Cunningham, Michael | The Hours | 2001 |
| D | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Dai, Sijie | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | 2003 |
| Danticat, Edwich | Breath, Eyes, Memory | 2000 |
| Dass, Baba Ram | The Only Dance There Is | 1974 |
| Davies, Robertson | What's Bred in the Bone | 1992 |
| de Bernieres, Louis | Birds Without Wings | 2006 |
| de Bernieres, Louis | Corelli's Mandolin | 1999 |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | 1978 |
| DeLillo, Don | White Noise | 1986 |
| Dershowitz, Alan | Chutzpah | 1993 |
| DeVries, Peter | Blood of the Lamb | 1984 |
| Diamond, Jared | Collapse | 2007 |
| Diaz, Junot | The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | 2010 |
| Dickey, James | Poems: 1957-1967 | 1977 |
| Dillard, Annie | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | 1978 |
| Dinesen, Isak | Out of Africa | 1986 |
| Doctorow, E.L. | Billy Bathgate | 1991 |
| Doctorow, E.L. | Ragtime | 1982 |
| Doctorow, E.L. | World's Fair | 1987 |
| Donvan, John | Living in New York | 1973 |
| Dorris Michael | Yellow Raft in Blue Water | 1989 & 2008 |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Idiot | 1968 |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie | 1999 |
| Dyer, Wayne | Your Erroneous Zones | 1978 |
| E | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and Dimed | 2005 |
| Eiseley, Loren | All the Strange Hours | 1979 |
| Eliot, George | Mill on the Floss | 1980 |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man | 1966 & 1995 |
| Emecheta, Buchi | Second Class Citizen | 2002 |
| Emerson, Ralph W. | Essays | 1987 |
| Enchi, Fumiko | The Waiting Years | 2005 |
| Epstein, Joseph | The Goldin Boys | 1993 |
| Erdrich, Louise | Love Medicine | 1997 |
| Erdrich, Louise | The Painted Drum | 2007 |
| Euripides | Medea | 1993 |
| F | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Farmer, Frances | Will There Really Be a Morning | 1983 |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying | 2006 |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August | 1995 |
| Faulkner, William | A Rose for Miss Emily | 1966 |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury | 1999 |
| Fergus, Jim | One Thousand White Women | 2003 |
| Ferris, Timothy | Coming of Age in the Milky Way | 1992 |
| Feynman, Richard | Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman | 1990 |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Babylon Revisited | 1979 |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | 1967 |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope | The Blue Flower | 2003 |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary | 1997 |
| Forster, E.M. | Room with a View | 1987 |
| Fowles, John | French Lieutenant's Woman | 1982 |
| Franklin, Benjamin | Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | 1990 |
| Frazier, Charles | Cold Mountain | 2000 |
| Fredriksson, Marianne | Hanna's Daughters | 2001 |
| French, Marilyn | The Women's Room | 1979 |
| Friedman, Myra | Buried Alive | 1974 |
| Friedman, Thomas | From Beirut to Jerusalem | 1991 |
| Friedman, Thomas | The Lexus and the Olive Tree | 2007 |
| Frost, Robert | Selected Poems | 1967 |
| G | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Gage, Nicholas | Eleni | 1986 |
| Gaines, Ernest | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | 1972 |
| Galsworthy, John | The Forsyte Saga | 2007 |
| Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 1973 |
| Gardner, John | October Light | 1980 |
| Gary, Romain | The Life Before Us | 2006 |
| Gibbons, Kaye | Charms for the Easy Life | 1997 |
| Gibbons, Stella | Cold Comfort Farm | 1997 |
| Gilbert, Michael | Smallbone Deceased | 1975 |
| Glass, Julia | Three Junes | 2004 |
| Gleick, James | Chaos | 1990 |
| Godwin, Gail | Odd Woman | 1983 |
| Goethe, Johann | Sorrows of Young Werther | 1981 |
| Gogol, Nikolai | Dead Souls | 1970 |
| Goldberg, Myla | Bee Season | 2002 |
| Golden, Arthur | Memoirs of a Geisha | 2000 |
| Goodman, Allegra | The Family Markowitz | 2001 |
| Goodman, Paul | Growing Up Absurd | 1968 |
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns | Wait 'til Next Year | 2001 |
| Gordon, Mary | Final Payments | 1979 |
| Grass, Gunter | Cat and Mouse | 1969 |
| Gray, Simon | Butley | 1980 |
| Greenberg, Joanne | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | 1968 |
| Greene, Graham | End of the Affair | 1966 |
| Greene, Graham | Heart of the Matter | 1970 |
| Greene, Graham | The Power and the Glory | 1996 |
| Greene, Graham | The Third Man | 1975 |
| Guest, Judith | Ordinary People | 1977 |
| Guterson, David | Snow Falling on Cedars | 1996 |
| H | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Hailey, Elizabeth | A Woman of Independent Means | 1981 |
| Hakakian, Roya | Journey from the Land of No | 2007 |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Glass Key | 1975 |
| Hammett, Dashiell | Maltese Falcon | 1988 |
| Hamill, Pete | Snow in August | 2002 |
| Hamilton, Jane | The Book of Ruth | 1998 |
| Hamilton, Jane | Disobedience | 2002 |
| Hamsun, Knut | Growth of the Soil | 1981 |
| Han Suyin | 'Til Morning Comes | 1986 |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure | 1978 |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | 1977 |
| Hartley, L.P. | The Go Between | 1975 |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Blithedale Romance | 1980 |
| Heinlein, Robert | Stranger in a Strange Land | 1974 |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch 22 | 1974 |
| Hellman, Lillian | Pentimento | 1978 |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises | 1967 |
| Herlihy, James | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 |
| Hesse, Herman | Siddhartha | 1972 |
| Hood, Ann | Somewhere off the Coast of Maine | 1990 |
| Horan, Nancy | Loving Frank | 2010 |
| Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner | 2005 |
| Hughes, Richard | High Wind in Jamaica | 1968 |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes were Watching God | 1992 |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | 1966 |
| I | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Ibsen, Henrik | Hedda Gabler | 1976 |
| Irving, John | Hotel New Hampshire | 1983 |
| Irving, John | The World According to Garp | 1979 |
| Irving, Washington | Sketch Book | 1984 |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Remains of the Day | 1991 |
| J | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| James, Henry | Short Stories | 1981 |
| James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw | 2004 |
| James, Henry | Washington Square | 1978 & 1995 |
| Jewett, Sarah | Country of the Pointed Firs | 1985 |
| Jhabvala, Ruth | Heat and Dust | 1980 |
| Jin, Ha | Waiting | 2001 |
| Johnson, Steven | Everything Bad is Good for You | 2007 |
| Joyce, Graham | The Facts of Life | 2009 |
| Joyce, James | Dubliners | 1982 |
| Joyce, James | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 1970 & 2000 |
| K | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Kafka, Franz | Metamorphosis and Other Stories | 1999 |
| Kawabata | Thousand Cranes | 1991 |
| Kazantzakis, Nilcos | Zorba the Greek | 1985 |
| Kennedy, William | Ironweed | 1985 |
| Kerouac, Jack | On the Road | 1986 & 1996 |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1972 |
| Khadra, Yasmina | The Attack | 2007 |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Secret Life of Bees | 2004 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal Dreams | 1992 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible | 2001 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Small Wonder | 2005 |
| Kingston, Maxine | Woman Warrior | 1980 |
| Knowles, Jolin | A Separate Peace | 1967 |
| Kohn, Rebecca | The Gilded Chamber | 2006 |
| Kosinski, Jerzy | Being There | 1980 |
| Kotlowitz, Alex | Never a City So Real | 2006 |
| Kovic, Ron | Born on the Fourth of July | 1990 |
| Koza, Jonathan | Rachel and Her Children | 1989 |
| Kundera, Milan | Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1989 & 1998 |
| L | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Lagerkvist, Par | Barabbas | 1968 |
| Lahiri. Jhumpa | The Namesake | 2005 |
| Lampedusa, Guisseppi | Leopard | 1987 |
| Landvik, Lorna | Patty Jane's House of Curl | 2001 |
| Langer, Adam | Crossing California | 2005 |
| Lardner, Ring | Haircut and Other Stories | 1985 |
| Larsen, Eric | Devil in the White City | 2005 |
| Lawrence, DH | Sons and Lovers | 1986 |
| Laxness, Halldor | Independent People | 2002 |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1994 & 2002 |
| LeGuin Ursula | The Left Hand of Darkness | 1980 |
| Lepore, Jill | New York Burning | 2007 |
| Lessing, Doris | Memoirs of a Survivor | 1980 |
| Levi, Prime | Moments of Reprieve | 1989 |
| Lewis, C.S. | Out of the Silent Planet | 1976 |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Babbitt | 1987 |
| Lord, Bette | Spring Moon | 1985 |
| Lowry, Malcolm | Under the Volcano | 1981 |
| Luce, Williain | Belle of Amherst | 1988 |
| M | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| MacDonald, Ross | Far Side of the Dollar | 1975 |
| MacLaine Shirley | Dancing in the Light | 1987 |
| Mahfouz, Naguib | Palace Walk | 1997 |
| Mailer,Norman | Armies of the Night | 1970 |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Assistant | 1999 |
| Malamud, Bernard | Dubin's Lives | 1980 |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Natural | 1985 |
| Malcolm X | Autobiography of Malcolm X | 1971 |
| Malouf, David | Remembering Babylon | 1996 |
| Mann, Thomas | Buddenbrooks | 1979 |
| Mann, Thomas | Death in Venice | 2005 |
| Mansfield, Katherine | Stories | 1987 |
| Mansfield, Katherine | Bliss and Other Stories | 1993 |
| Markandava, Kamala | Nector in a Sieve | 1973 |
| Markham, Beryl | West with the Night | 1988 |
| Masters, Edgar Lee | Spoon River Anthology | 1969 |
| Martel, Yann | Life of Pi | 2004 |
| Mauriac, Francois | Viper's Tangle | 1977 |
| Maxwell, William | So Long, See You Tomorrow | 1981 |
| McBride, James | The Color of Water | 1999 |
| McCourt, Frank | Angela's Ashes | 2000 |
| McCullers, Carson | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | 1966 & 1995 |
| McEwan, Ian | Atonement | 2003 |
| McGinniss, Joe | Fatal Vision | 1984 |
| McMurtry, Larry | Terms of Endearment | 1984 |
| Melville, Herman | Bartleby the Scrivener & the Encantadas | 1991 |
| Melville, Herman | Confidence Man | 1994 |
| Mencken, HL | Vintage Mencken | 1981 |
| Michaels, Anne | Fugitive Pieces | 2007 |
| Miller, Sue | Good Mother | 1988 |
| Miller, Warren | Canticle for Liebowitz | 1972 |
| Millhauser, Steven | Martin Dressler | 1999 |
| Min, Anchee | Red Azalea | 1998 |
| Mishima, Yukio | After the Banquet | 1979 |
| Mishima, Yukio | Spring Snow | 2001 |
| Mishima, Yukio | Temple of the Golden Pavilion | |
| Momaday, N. Scott | House Made of Dawn | 1971 |
| Montaigne | Essays | 1991 |
| Moon, Wm Least Heat | Blue Highways | 1985 |
| Moore, Brian | Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | 1974 |
| Moorehouse, Frank | Room Service | 1989 |
| Morrison, Toni | Song of Solomon | 1982 |
| Morrison, Toni | Sula | 1994 |
| Munro, Alice | Open Secrets: Stories | 1996 |
| Munro, HH | Best of Saki | 1978 |
| Murdoch, Iris | The Unicorn | 1967 |
| N | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Nabakov, Vladimir | Lolita | 1995 |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran | 2004 |
| Nair, Anita | Ladies Coupé | 2008 |
| Naisbitt, John | Megatrends 2000 | 1991 |
| Nin, Anais | Diary of Anais Nin, v1, 1934-1939 | 1973 |
| Nolan, Christopher | Under the eye of the clock | 1991 |
| O | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| O'Connor, Flannery | A Good Man is Hard to Find | 1999 |
| O'Neill, Neria and George | Open Marriage | 1973 |
| O'Brien, Tim | In the Lake of the Woods | 1997 |
| O'Casey, Sean | Juno and the Paycock | 1985 |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Wheel of Love | 1977 |
| Obama, Barack | Dreams from My Father | 2010 |
| Oe, Kenzaburo | Personal Matter | 1971 |
| Oe, Kenzaburo | Silent Cry | 1996 |
| Ondaatje, Michael | The English Patient | 1994 |
| Orwell, George | 1984 | 1984 |
| Osbourne, John | Luther | 1983 |
| Ozick, Cynthia | The Puttermesser Papers | 2000 |
| P | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Paley, Grace | The Little Disturbances of Man | 2008 |
| Parker Dorothy | Selected Short Stories | 1969 |
| Patchett, Ann | Bel Canto | 2005 |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country | 1970 & 2009 |
| Percy, Walker | Lancelot | 1978 |
| Perls, Frederick | In and Out of the Garbage Pail | 1973 |
| Petterson, Per | Out Stealing Horses | 2010 |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel | In the Heart of the Sea | 2007 |
| Plath, Sylvia | Ariel | 1976 |
| Pogrebin, Letty | Deborah, Golda and Me | 1993 |
| Poitier, Sidney | The Measure of a Man | 2007 |
| Pomerance, Bernard | Elephant Man | 1980 |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | Noon Wine | 1967 |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | Pale Horse, Pale Rider | 1967 |
| Power, Susan | The Grass Dancer | 2000 |
| Powers, JF | Morte D'Urban | 1967 |
| Price, Richard | Samaritan | 2010 |
| Proulx, Annie | The Shipping News | 1995 |
| Pym, Barbara | Glass of Blessings | 1983 |
| Q | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Quindlen, Anna | Living Out Loud | 1997 |
| R | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Read, Piers Paul | Alive | 1976 |
| Reeve, FD | The Brother | 1973 |
| Reich, Charles | The Greening of America | 1971 |
| Renault, Mary | Last of the Wine | 1971 |
| Rhys, Jean | Good Morning, Midnight | 1975 |
| Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea | 2006 |
| Rich, Adrienne | Diving Into the Wreck | 1976 |
| Robinson,Marilynne | Housekeeping | 1996 |
| Roiphe, Anne | Loving Kindness | 1989 |
| Rolvaag, OE | Giants in the Earth | 1978 |
| Rose, Louise | The Launching of Barbara Fabrikant | 1976 |
| Rossner, Judith | Looking for Mr Goodbar | 1978 |
| Roth, Philip | American Pastoral | 2000 |
| Roth, Philip | The Plot Against America | 2006 |
| Rushdie, Salman | Midnight's Children | 2003 |
| Russell, Mary Doria | Dreamers of the Day | 2009 |
| Russo, Richard | Empire Falls | 2003 |
| Russo, Richard | Straight Man | 2006 |
| S | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Sagan, Carl | Broca's Brain | 1982 |
| Saint Exupery, Antoine de | The Little Prince | 1975 |
| Salinger, JD | Catcher in the Rye | 1992 |
| Salzman, Mark | Lost in Place | 2004 |
| Saramago, Jose | All the Names | 2002 |
| Sarton, May | Journal of a Solitude | 1984 |
| Sayers, Dorothy | Fice Red Herrings | 1975 |
| Schlink, Bernard | The Reader | 2000 |
| Schreiber, Flora | Sybil | 1974 |
| Scott, Paul | The Jewel in the Crown | 1985 |
| See, Lisa | Snow Flower & the Secret Fan | 1976 |
| Selvadurai, Shyam | Cinnamon Gardens | 2007 |
| Sexton, Anne | Selected Poems | 1976 |
| Shaffer, Peter | Amadeus | 1985 |
| Shaffer, Peter | Equus | 1976 |
| Shaw, G.B. | Man and Superman | 1979 |
| Sheehy, Gail | Passages | 1977 |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | 1995 |
| Shields, Carol | Stone Diaries | 1996 |
| Signoret, Simone | Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be | 1981 |
| Silone, Ignazio | Bread and Wine | 2001 |
| Singer, Bashevis Isaac | Enemies, a Love Story | 1990 |
| Skinner, B.F. | Walden Two | 1970 |
| Sliulinaii Alix | Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen | 1973 |
| Smiley, Jane | A Thousand Acres | 1993 |
| Smiley, Jane | Ordinary Love and Good Will | 1993 |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 2010 |
| Smith, Hedrick | The Russians | 1978 |
| Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr | Cancer Ward | 1975 |
| Soyinka, Wole | Ake, the Years of Childhood | 1998 |
| Spark, Muriel | Memento Mori | 1977 |
| Spark, Muriel | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 2007 |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose | 1989 & 2009 |
| Steinbeck, John | East of Eden | 2004 |
| Steinbeck, John | Travels with Charley | 1974 |
| Steinem, Gloria | Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions | 1985 |
| Stendahl | The Red and the Black | 1989 |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula | 1979 |
| Strachey, Lytton | Eminent Victorians | 1981 |
| Strachey, Lytton | Elizabeth and Essex | 1995 |
| Strout, Elizabeth | Olive Kitteridge | 2010 |
| Stuart, Jesse | The Thread that Runs So True | 1981 |
| Styron, William | Lie Down in Darkness | 1970 |
| Styron, William | Sophie's Choice | 1981 |
| Sussman, Susan | Dieter | 1990 |
| Swift, Graham | Last Orders | 1998 |
| Synge, Jolin | Playboy of the Western World | 1975 |
| T | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club | 1991 |
| Tannen, Deborah | You Just Don't Understand: | |
| Tartt, Donna | The Little Friend | 2005 |
| Taylor, Peter | Summons to Memphis | 1988 |
| Taylor, Peter | Summons to Memphis | 1988 |
| Terkel, Studs | The Good War | 1986 |
| Tey, Josephine | A Daughter of Time | 1997 |
| Theroux, Paul | Dark Star Safari | 2006 |
| Theroux, Paul | Mosquito Coast | 1987 |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden and Civil Disobedience | 1969 |
| Thirkell, Angela Mackail | Love Among the Ruins | 1973 |
| Thurber, James | Selected Writings | 1971 |
| Tolan, Sandy | The Lemon Tree | 2010 |
| Tolstoy, Leo | The Death of Ivan Ilych | 1968 & 2009 |
| Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe | The Leopard | 2009 |
| Trevor, William | Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria | 2000 |
| Trollope, Anthony | The Warden | 1977 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Ralph the Heir | 1990 |
| Tsukiyama, Gail | The Samurai's Garden | 2003 |
| Turgenev, Ivan | Fathers and Sons | 1972 |
| Turgenev, Ivan | Spring Torrents | 1983 |
| Turnbull, Colin | The Mountain People | 1977 |
| Turow, Scott | Ordinary Heroes | 2007 |
| Turow, Scott | Presumed Innocent | 1988 |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 1993 |
| Twain, Mark | Innocents Abroad | 1980 |
| Tyler, Anne | Accidental Tourist | 1989 |
| Tyler, Anne | Breathing Lessons | 1995 |
| Tyler, Anne | Digging to America | 2009 |
| Tyler, Anne | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | 1983 |
| U | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Umrigar, Thrity | Bombay Time | 2006 |
| Updike, John | Rabbit is Rich | 1983 |
| Updike, John | Roger's Version | 1990 |
| V | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta | Motherland | 2010 |
| Viorst, Judith | Necessary Losses | 1988 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | God Bless You, Mr Rosewater | 1972 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five | 1976 |
| Vreeland, Susan | The Passion of Artemesia | 2010 |
| W | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple | 1984 |
| Walton, Evangeline | Children of Llyr | 1976 |
| Watson, Larry | Montana 1948 | 1995 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited | 1982 |
| Welson, Faye | Hearts and Lives of Men | 1992 |
| Welty, Eudora | The Optimist's Daughter | 2002 |
| Welty, Eudora | Short Stories | 2009 |
| West, Nathaniel | Day of the Locust | 1975 |
| West, Nathaniel | Miss Lonely Hearts | 1966 |
| Westheimeri, David | My Sweet Charlie | 1975 |
| Wharton, Edith | House of Mirth | 1982 & 2001 |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence | 1994 |
| White, Bailey | Sleeping at the Starlight Motel | 1997 |
| White, E.B. | Charlotte's Web | 1973 |
| Wiesel, Elie | Gates of the Forest | 1974 |
| Wilde, Oscar | Selected Plays | 1982 |
| Wilder, Thornton | Bridge of San Luis Rey | 1966 |
| Williams, Tennessee | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1976 |
| Wolfe, Tom | Bonfire of the Vanities | 1989 |
| Wolfe, Tom | The Right Stuff | 1982 |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Room of One's Own | 1974 |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse | 1995 |
| Y | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Yanez, Augustin | Edge of the Storm | 1988 |
| Z | ||
| Author | Title | Year discussed |
| Zamiatin, Eugene | We | 1989 |
| Zola, Emile | Nana | 1979 |